Randomly-generated passphrases offer a major security upgrade over user-chosen passwords. Estimating the difficulty of guessing or cracking a human-chosen password is very difficult. It was the primary topic of my own PhD thesis and remains an active area of research. (One of many difficulties when people choose passwords themselves is that people aren't very good at making random, unpredictable choices.)
Note that the security of a passphrase generated using either list is identical; the differences are in usability, including memorability, not in security. For most uses, we recommend a generating a six-word passphrase with this list, for a strength of 77 bits of entropy. ("Bits of entropy" is a common measure for the strength of a password or passphrase. Adding one bit of entropy doubles the number of guesses required, which makes it twice as difficult to brute force.) Each additional word will strengthen the passphrase by about 12.9 bits.
The list contains every wordlist, dictionary, and password database leak thatI could find on the internet (and I spent a LOT of time looking). It alsocontains every word in the Wikipedia databases (pages-articles, retrieved 2010,all languages) as well as lots of books from Project Gutenberg. It also includes thepasswords from some low-profile database breaches that were being sold in theunderground years ago.
You can test the list without downloading it by giving SHA256 hashes to the free hash cracker. Here's a tool for computing hashes easily.Here are the results of cracking LinkedIn'sand eHarmony's password hash leaks with the list.
The list is responsible forcracking about 30% of all hashes given to CrackStation's free hash cracker, butthat figure should be taken with a grain of salt because some people try hashesof really weak passwords just to test the service, and others try to crack theirhashes with other online hash crackers before finding CrackStation. Using thelist, we were able to crack 49.98% of one customer's set of 373,000human password hashes to motivate their move to a better salting scheme.
I got some requests for a wordlist with just the "real human" passwords leakedfrom various website databases. This smaller list contains just those passwords.There are about 64 million passwords in this list!
Is there a list / source of the words? Or is it specific to 1Password? (EDIT: yep, not sure if the online generator site uses that one, the wordlist has gone through various iterations over the years)
I'm quite fond of word based passwords, but when I tried the mentioned 1Password generator (in "memorable" mode), I noticed the words seemed odd, many not as easy to remember which seemed to contrast against "memorable". foremost-tout-effluvia-besom-cuticle and boudoir-tuque-yttrium-hostelry-dote for example, one suggestion had the word vlsi?
I much prefer the official EFF wordlist, which is less than half of what 1Password uses at 7776 words, roughly a single bit less of entropy. Since I want something more memorable, the added entropy from 1Password isn't that significant of a benefit and doesn't quite add enough at small word counts to lower entropy by dropping an entire word (eg 4 word 1Password at 56-bits vs 5 word EFF at 64-bits, 4 being 52 bits).
If using biometrics more often, you might forget how that password started (at least for the ywca example), or how some words were spelt depending on your luck. I've had my phone bug out and wipe my biometrics at one point, I was able to still access vault data due to knowing the password backup. I think if it was the 1Password example, I'd not recall it.
For password generation of accounts instead of master password, perhaps this matters less with a password manager since it's keeping a copy for you and can automate the input (which can remove the length/input time concern). I prefer word based passwords, especially for accounts that I may want to access without depending on 1Password always being available, or relaying a temporary password to someone else, especially if verbally (it happens).
If I want to generate nicer word based passwords by using the EFF list, must I use an external generator like Bitwardens? As the 1Password one presumably only has this undesirable 18k wordlist alternative?
Hey guys,
How can I login with Kira, I am using the password indicated in the hint throught ssh, ftp and smb but nothing works. In smb the access to SHARE in denied.
I also have tried to brute force ssh using kira and the wordlist that can be found in resources but it does not work
Should I use mutations with the password indicated in the hint?
Thank you in advance
so if I go through all of Kali Linux's word-lists and none of them is a match (WPA handshake capture)
I can only assume that it was a generated password and it has to be at least 8 characters and digits.
I searched for a word-list that has every possible password ever but I couldn't really find anything, so I decided to generate my own and I made a python script that would generate every possible password containing small/big letters and numbers, It would take forever to create an 8 character long password word-list, not to mention that It would require A LOT of space, i estimate somewhere from 600GB up to 6TB, for one 8 char long word-list.
I have a wordlist that contained only strings without alphanumeric strings. How would I use this wordlist to crack a password that has an alphanumeric password which is of mixed cases but the number in the password never goes past 100
The first problem is a classic use case of John The Ripper, you can have it read in your wordlist, apply some mangling rules (such as appending 0-99 to each word, permuting cases etc), and output a final, complete password list.
The second problem is quite easy to solve once you have the password list. You could just loop over the passwords in bash, but if you're really lazy, Metasploit has an SSH scanner that reads a password list for you.
Of course, breaking this down into two stages means you are storing the huge password list as a file. In general you would be more likely to pipe the output from John The Ripper to your SSH scanner, rather than using an intermediate file.
First off it will be difficult to get the root password if you are only logged in as a normal user. However, there are different ways of getting 'root' which I believe go beyond the scope of this forum.
Try and use Hashcat to try and retrieve password. You however need a wordlist eg rockyou.txt or any of those available in the OpenWall site (makers of John the Ripper, which is another tool which is only as good as your wordlist.
Great question. The memorable password list in 1Password 8 is included in the application itself, and isn't available on disk. Is there something specific about the word list that I can help you with?
thanks a lot for your reply.
Actually, I just wanted to do a quick inspection of the wordlist out of curiosity for the words included and I am also interested in the number of words in the current wordlist to better estimate entropy when choosing the necessary minimum length for newly created memorable passphrases.
I count 18,147 full words. If you care, there are also 10,121 word fragments that are used when "full words" is turned off. (There's also a list of around 10,000 words that likely represent the vulnerable passwords from previous breaches. These are really fascinating for different reasons but not relevant to your question. ?)
I appreciate this list but I haven't had any luck with it. Does anyone know by chance if this include the passwords that are include in the famous renderman rainbow tables? I will be trying those next.
I was googlein my wordlist and i found this, am rather flatterd, thanks guys for you comments and compliments. if anyone has any other comments or sugestions then you can email me ( my email is included in the torrent).
For the dictionary itself, I am using system packages wamerican and wbritish as these seemed sensible.
I have installed spell, ispell, aspell, and hunspell, as well as restarting both webmin and usermin services after each installation in an attempt to get this option working. I have verified the location of dictionary files and a word list at /usr/share/dict/words (this list is a linked file) and set the location via Users & Groups config to use the previously mentioned file to no avail. No errors are displayed or logged when passwords are changed. Passwords containing dictionary words, be they one word or concatenated with other characters, seem to completely ignore the option to disallow them is set.
The slow hash-cracking is the result of efforts the Microsoft Office application puts into storing the password hash and encrypting the document. The encryption methods are far more complex than they used to be in earlier Office versions. Office 2013 encryption uses 128-bit AES using SHA-512 algorithm. The more processing power used to create the hash, the harder it is to attempt multiple combinations to find that matching hash.
Interestingly, Microsoft also left a backdoor in all Office 2013 encrypted documents that allowed the use of a Master Key. Microsoft even made DocRecrypt Tool that would allow an IT Admin to decrypt or re-crypt an Office document without the original password by using certificate-signing services on the domain. These and other attack vectors have been researched by the community and could yield potential attack vectors that may entirely circumvent hash-cracking encrypted documents altogether.
I thought about all the times I sold something on eBay, and all the close-up shots I took from every angle, showing that whatever I was selling was exactly as I said it was. How ironic that those same close-up shots from every angle could be the key to deciphering the passwords put in place to protect those same products!
Wireless routers that use these default passwords also have a default network name (or SSID) in the form of NETGEAR##. For example: NETGEAR86. If the person who setup that network is using the default SSID, it stands to reason that they could be using the default wireless key too.
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